Deutsche Lufthansa AG is a globally operating aviation group and is active in five business segments. Passenger Transportation is the Group’s core business activity. The importance of other business segments depends mainly on the extent to which, as service providers for essential production factors and infrastructure, they strengthen the core business segment Passenger Transportation’s capacity for further development or constitute a signifi cant "competence fit". Logistics, MRO, IT Services and Catering are further segments of the group.